Withiel

The Cornwall Family History Society have published Monumental Inscriptions for the Parish Church - 295 entries.

Census information for this parish (1841 - 1901) is held in the Cornwall Record Office. The Cornwall Family History Society offers a census search service for its members.

Specific census information for this parish is available as follows:

• 1841. The 1841 Census of Withiel (HO107/150), Enumeration District 2, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1851. The 1851 Census of Withiel (HO107/1904), Enumeration District 4, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1861. The 1861 Census of Withiel (HO107/1537), Enumeration District 12c, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1871. The 1871 Census of Withiel (RG10/2250), Enumeration District 12, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1881. The 1881 Census of Withiel (RG11/2292), Enumeration District 12, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1891. The 1891 Census of Withiel (RG12/1816), Enumeration District 12, is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.

• Anglican. The parish church is located in OS Grid Square SW9965 and was dedicated to St Clement in 1478. It comprises a chancel, nave, and north and south aisles. The south arcade has six four-centred arches, and the north arcade three obtuse, four-centred arches, all, including the pillars, of fine ganite. The east window of the south aisle displays the arms of Prior Vivian of Bodmin Priory who is said to have built this aisle. The tower is of a superior structure of granite ashlar. It has three stages, has buttresses on the square of the angles, and is finished with battlements and pinnacles.
• Non-Conformist. There was a Wesleyan Methodist chapel at Retire and a Bible Christian chapel at Tregawne.

The Note on the first page of the Phillimore's Marriage Index for Withiel (1586 to 1812) reads:

NOTE: The Marriages hereunder given have been extracted by Mrs. Glencross from two volumes, viz--the old Withiel Register which includes Baptisms and Burials from 1567 to 1786, and Marriages from 1568 to 1770, and from Hardwicke's Register which was commenced in 1754. Marriages between 1754 and 1770 are found entered in both Registers. The books are in good preservation, but in the first volume there is some bad writing and in places the record is almost illegible. The Rev. W. S. Cruddas, M.A.., Rector of Withiel, has kindly allowed the Marriages to be printed. They are given here in chronological order, although, as in pointed out in the notes, such is not always the order preserved in the old Register.

• LDS Church Records.
  • The LDS Church batch numbers for Withiel are: C002362, P001361. These are searchable by surname.
  • The IGI coverage for this parish is 1567 - 1875; it is NOT believed to be fully included in the LDS Church's International Genealogical Index (IGI).
• The Cornwall Record Office holdings: Baptisms 1567 - 1879, Burials 1568 - 1918, Marriages 1568 - 1979, Boyd's Marriage Index 1568 - 1812, Pallot's Marriage Index 1800 - 1812.
• The Cornwall Family History Society have published on-line transcripts of:
  • Pre 1813 Marriages
  • 1813-37 Marriages
  • 1813-37 Burials
• Baptisms.
  • The Cornish Forefathers' Society have published on CD baptisms 1695 to 1843 for this parish which can be purchased on Parish Chest.
• Marriages.
  • Phillimore marriages 1568 to 1811 for this parish are available on-line through the OPC search Facility - (C-PROP).
  • The Cornwall Family History Society have published transcripts of: Marriages in the Parish 1568 to 1837, which is available in CD or downloadable .pdf file formats.
• Burials. The Cornwall Family History Society have published transcripts of: Burials in the Parish 1813 to 1837, which is available in Book format.

The parish of Withiel is in the Bodmin Registration District, and has been since 1st July 1837; there were sub-districts are Bodmin, Egloshayle, Lanlivery and St Mabyn but these have now been abolished. Parishes within the district were: Blisland, Bodmin, Bodmin Borough, Cardinham, Egloshayle, Endellion, Helland, Lanhydrock, Lanviet, Lanlivery, Lostwithiel, Luxulion, St. Kew, St. Mabyn, St. Minver Highlands, St. Minver Lowlands, St. Tudy, St. Winnow, Temple, Wadebridge, Warleggon, Withiel.

The Superintendant Registrar can be contacted at: Lyndhurst, 66 Nicholas Street, Bodmin, Cornwall, PL31 2AG. Tel: 01208 73677.

• Photographs of Withiel are available on-line.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• 1856 Post Office Directory of Withiel.
• 1873 Post Office Directory of Withiel.
• 1893 Post Office Directory of Withiel.
• 1919 Post Office Directory of Withiel.

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Withiel to another place.

• OPC Assistance. The On-line Parish Clerk (OPC) scheme operates a service to help family historians; the OPC page for this parish is available on-line, from where the OPC can be contacted by email.
• There is a genealogical website for St Allen, Newlyn East, Perranzabuloe and Withiel parishes, which contains some census and Directory information of the parish.

The Domesday Settlements of Cornwall, a study undertaken by the Cornwall Branch of the Historical Association, has identified and located settlements listed in the Exeter and Exchequer Domesday Survey of AD 1086. The following places have been identified in Withiel ecclesiastical parish:

• Withiel (Widie), Grid Reference 994654.

• Map of the Bodmin Registration District in which the parish lies.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SW996645 (Lat/Lon: 50.446059, -4.823775), Withiel which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

The Corn Survey of 1630 took the form of a "certificate by Inquirers of the number of persons which are in the houses of every householder", in each parish. The enumerators were required to list the quantity, in bushels, of corn and grain of every inhabitant within each parish. That survey is available, courtesy of the OPC.

Withiel parish was part of the Bodmin Union for Poor Law administration and parish relief.

A list of the inhabitants of Withiel in the 16th Century is available on-line, courtesy of the OPC.

In the May of 1641 it was agreed and ordered that every Member of the House of Commons and House of Lords should make a protestation (declaration of loyalty) to the crown. The Protestation was printed and then distributed by the Members to their counties. The Protestation was to be made by everyone and the Rectors, Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor, had to appear before the Justices of the Peace in their Hundred to make their protestation and, on returning to their parishes, any two of them were to witness the taking of the Protestation Oath by all males over the age of 18 years. All names were listed and anyone who refused was to be noted. The OPC has made available the Protestation Returns of 1641 for Withiel on-line.

The parish comprises 3085 acres of land and 6 acres of water.